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My E-trac beat out by a Bounty Hunter!

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Dig EM

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Went to my local hunting place and decided to hunt next to this old chainlink fence. Could'nt get close to it cause the E-trac would just go nuts. I gave up on the fence idea and went elsewhere. I later looked over that way and a guy is hunting that same fence with what looks like a Wal-mart Bounty Hunter? I walked over and ask if he was doing any good next to the fence. He said just some clad coins so far, just then he got a "beep" (no headphones) and when he dug that beep it was a mercury dime! It was right next to the fence. Can the E-trac get close to a fence like that?? Could it be that tiny coil on his detector? He was'nt but about 7 feet from where I gave up.
 
Thats the fault of the DD coil. they used to be called "widescan" coils, and no, you can't get close to fence, poles, etc with it. Smaller coils help, but still won't let you get as close as the concentric coil used by most other machines. You could also try lowering your sensitivity in manual.

Don't feel bad, your E-Trac can pull silver MUCH deeper and mixed with iron trash that he could never dream finding.
 
Poor bounty hunter...only place he can find stuff any more is next to the fence where you can't go. So Sad. Nice of you to leave him a spot.
 
Well, One time is not the whole game !!!!
 
I can get pretty close with my 6" EQ2 pro coil. That and a little less sens could get you close enough.
 
I've had good success by reducing the sens around 5 and getting close to the metal in tot lots and fences. This is with the stock coil. In fact when you get a beep on the metal just disc that segment out. Keep doing that until it's silent. So you can disc out the fence and still get the high tone stuff. Just keep pushing your reject button. Move the coil with the fence not to and from. Walk the coil one way very slow only stopping if you get a beep. Keep the coil away from the fence about 4 inches. As you get away from the fence start increasing the sens. I'm sure doing this would have netted you the merc. But you never got your coil over it. That's most of the game any way.
 
Haha my 9 year old daughter found a Rosie and a Merc back to back with her Bounty Hunter 3300 recently right in front of me, and that day my ETRAC didn't find a single silver. It was depressing.
 
Once you get the signal from the galvanized wire reject it and hunt. You could even set up a program and save it if you hunt these areas often. You are not handicapped with an E-Trac. HH :minelab:
 
With a Bounty Hunter you pretty much dig all targets..ha@...sometimes you will get lucky...stay with the Etrac, you will find more targets, more deeper targets and you will find targets that the Bounty Hunter will never find...
 
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